Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 2 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 3 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 4 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 6 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 7 | Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ? |
| 8 | They were gone a long time . |
| 9 | The working party on the theology of marriage is finding its task stimulating but arduous and it will surprise no one that it 's taking a long time . |
| 10 | It 's taking a long time to heal . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Everything official here seems to be tied up in red tape , so although it 's taking a long time I 'm sure the licence is being processed , ’ she declared defiantly . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’ |
| 13 | It is taking a long time to redesign the business processes of these industries . |
| 14 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 15 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 16 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 17 | She might say ‘ no' ’ even if it was planned a long time . |
| 18 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |